Southern Baptist Convention right for restricting chaplains

I have been a Southern Baptist all my life, (many years), and very much disagree with Randy Weeks' newspaper column on September 21, 2013. I praise the Southern Baptist Convention for restricting our military chaplains from performing same-sex unions. I know about our Baptist beliefs of "competency of the soul" and priesthood of the believers." This gives us much liberty and freedom to have a personal relationship with our God. Same-sex unions are not supported in the Bible; therefore they are not supported in Baptist beliefs.

However, in these times of politically-correct thinking coming from the news media and liberal theologians, many denominations are caving in to Biblical error. We can no longer let people "think for themselves." As C.S. Lewis said, "We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. No beliefs will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed."

Mr. Weeks claims to be embarrassed by the actions of the Southern Baptist Convention. Frankly, I wish he would join another denomination that is more theologically acceptable to his way of thinking.

Hooray for the North American Mission Board for reminding us we can "get off course."

Mildred Lewis

Brandon

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Southern Baptist Convention right for restricting chaplains

I have been a Southern Baptist all my life, (many years), and very much disagree with Randy Weeks' newspaper column on September 21, 2013. I praise the Southern Baptist Convention for restricting our